Chapter 1:
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Jeff could overhear the muffled study room filled with laughter, and talking. His shoes quietly padded down the carpeted hallway, and his hands in his pockets, He overheard the dean and the rest of the study group deciding on something, he was too far away to understand what they were saying, but he could make one thing out,
“I just don't know how to ask Jeff,..” Jeff stopped dead in his tracks, confused and concerned about what they were talking about. Was he in trouble with the dean, or was it something different?Jeff had secretly been crushing on Craig since he got to Greendale. He would never let him know, that would be humiliating, and the study group would most definitely make fun of him for it, especially peirce.
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He was obviously lost in his thoughts, because Frankie had been talking to him for a solid five minutes without him noticing, “ Jeff?jeff, are you even listening to me?”He quickly looked back at her, the brunette stood annoyed at the wannabe cool kid in front of her,
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He paused before speaking,
“Oh, uh yeah.” Frankie was unamused. “Really Jeff, you'd think I wouldn't be able to know when you're lying?” she sighed as straightened her magenta suit. “Jeff-, listen. The study group needs to have another meeting, save Greendale and what not, And hey, Talk to the dean, he wants you in his office later.” SheSmiled and stared back at Jeff for a second, then swiftly walked away. Her heels softly stomped the ground, her arms hung tingly against her clipboard.
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He wants to see me in his office later?, he thought to himself, He sighed, and continued walking down the hall and into the study room.-
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The doors swung open slightly, and Jeff walked in swinging his bag over his shoulders and opening his seat to sit in it, “Oh hello jeffery!,” Shirley's sweet voice said, “how are you?”
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He wasn't paying attention again, he was looking around the room, then his eyes met with craigs. It felt like nothing else mattered when he looked into his eyes, “jeff?Jeff, are you alright?” Shirley questioned, He snapped back, and nodded to Shirley, at this point the whole study group was staring at him now, “Well I should get going everyone, And jeffery.” The dean quickly speed walked out of the room, nearly tripping over his own shoes multiple times and he muttered something to himself under his breath,
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“So, Jeff, what's up with you and pelton?” Britta questioned, Pierced eyes widened, and one of his eyebrows lifted slightly “Jeff, is there something , er going on with you and the dean? Something queer?”
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He felt like his whole face was going red, “I uh-, No?” He tried to keep his cool guy persona, and not let the study group realize that he did in fact have a crush on craig.
“Jeff.” Abed snuck up behind him causing Jeff to shiver and jump up slightly, “Yes abed?” “I may be wrong, but if this is like any movie i've ever watched, you are obviously in l-” Jeff started at abed, of course he would be the first to realize,
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“Abed, No. This isn't some weird 14 year olds fanfiction, and this most definitely isn't some movie, I could care less about dean.” He lied, hopefully making it believable enough, Frankie looked over at him and raised an eyebrow at him, and he avoided eye contact with anyone in the room.
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“Listen guys, I have to go, uh..” Shit. he hadn't gotten that far, they looked at him with anticipation in their eyes, wondering why Jeff was leaving so soonly, the day had only started as well.
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“ But Jeff, it's only 9:30, are you hiding something?” Annie asked innocently, Jeff started to panic, it would be better just to tell them then to keep everything bottled up,he hesitantly spoke,closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
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“He's about to have a monologue” abed muttered,
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“listen guy’s, i-” he was quickly cut off by britta “jeff, you mean the world to us, and anything you have going on with him is none of our business, so if you say nothings going on, that's probably the truth, lets let jeff have some room, he probably just needs to study or something” britta shrugged, turning to jeff to smile at him warmly,
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“yeah study the deans body” peirce muttered somewhat under his breath “Peirce!” Annie and Shirley collectively slightly yelled at him,
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Troy walked in, whistling, "Oh, am I ruining something?”He stopped whistling, and walked over to abed.
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“No, Nothing At all. I'm leaving now."Jeff swiftly left the room padding down the hall with his head down, texting.
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“Soooo what's up with jeff?” Troy asked the quiet study room, “you know the usual, we ask if he's very clearly in love with the dean, and he always acts like he isn't.what are we going to do about them?,If it keeps up like this, they’ll never confess to each other”. Britta added.
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Abed hummed and grabbed Troy's arm, linking it with his. Troy smiled and turned to him, clearly ignoring Britta’s annoyed look on her face “So, What do you wanna do later?” “Well there's a rerun of honey I shrunk the kids on tonight, and buttered noodles?” He smiled widely, “That sound good,”
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The bell rang, as Abed unlocked their hands,and Troy gave him a peck on the forehead. “See you later abed!” He smiled at him and looked back multiple times while walking to his next class. Britta looked away, obviously upset.
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“Abed? Do you ever think about you and Troy's relationship?” Britta asked, trying to sound sweet, but coming off as bitter. “You wouldn't get it. Bromance.” He added to the somewhat argument (that only seemed to be one sided), britta huffed off, leaving abed confused.
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He walked down the hall, and caught a glimpse of jeff leaving the building, he wondered why he was just now leaving, after walking out over 20 minutes ago,
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He speedwalked out of the building, adn walked side by side with Jeff, “abed-, not now.” he huffed, his breath is more heavy than normal, abed noticed that instantly. “Jeff. We’re not dumb. We know how you feel about the dean.” Jeff checked his phone, not wanting to indicate in a conversation, and especially about that.
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Jeff sighed, “Can we not talk about thai right now abed.”, “You know you need to talk to him, he's waiting for you in his office” Abed ducked away,and back into the building,
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Jeff sighed, He needed to do this, even if it destroyed him, and his relationship with the study group, and Craig.
He quickly flipped his phone out, and sent a text to Craig, pacing back and forth in the parking lot where Abed had left him, only minutes ago.240Please respect copyright.PENANALJb4gZrL3H
Craig:240Please respect copyright.PENANA4zvNhYWSER
J:Hey, uh i wanted to talk to you about something,i'm not the best at talking about things like this through a text.
C: Then don't, Come up to my office, I want to talk to you about something as well.
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J: Okay, I'll be up in 5.
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